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HOSPITAL CHARACTERISTICS

Accreditation

Hospital accreditation has been identified as an indicator of capability within the National Health Performance Framework (for further information refer to Australian Hospital Statistics 2010-11, produced by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW)).
As at 30 June 2011, the main organisations used by hospitals to obtain accreditation were the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards (ACHS) (used by 303 hospitals) and Benchmark Certification (used by 81 hospitals). Acute and psychiatric hospitals in New South Wales were less likely to hold ACHS accreditation than Acute and psychiatric hospitals in other states (46.5% in New South Wales, compared to 74.7% in Victoria and 74.1% in Queensland). The state with the lowest proportion of ACHS accredited Free-standing day hospitals was Victoria (25.0%).

TABLE 1.8: PRIVATE HOSPITALS, Accreditation/Certification status(a)—at 30 June 2011
	ACHS(b)		Benchmark certification		Other (c)
	Accredited hospitals	Non-accredited hospitals	Accredited hospitals	Non-accredited hospitals	Accredited hospitals	Non-accredited hospitals	All private hospitals
	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.
Acute and psychiatric hospitals
New South Wales	40	46	11	75	43	43	86
Victoria	59	20	6	73	21	58	79
Queensland	40	14	np	np	18	36	54
South Australia	22	8	np	np	np	np	30
Western Australia	np	np	—	21	4	17	21
Tasmania, Northern Territory and Australian Capital Territory (d)	np	np	—	9	np	np	9
Australia	187	92	23	256	95	184	279
Free-standing day hospital facilities
New South Wales	42	55	21	76	47	50	97
Victoria	22	66	20	68	54	34	88
Queensland	19	34	8	45	29	24	53
South Australia	13	13	—	26	np	np	26
Western Australia	np	np	6	29	18	17	35
Tasmania, Northern Territory and Australian Capital Territory (d)	np	np	3	12	np	np	15
Australia	116	198	58	256	169	145	314
All private hospitals
New South Wales	82	101	32	151	90	93	183
Victoria	81	86	26	141	75	92	167
Queensland	59	48	np	np	47	60	107
South Australia	35	21	np	np	23	33	56
Western Australia	28	28	3	21	22	34	56
Tasmania, Northern Territory and Australian Capital Territory (d)	18	6	81	512	7	17	24
Australia (d)	303	290	81	512	264	329	593
— nil or rounded to zero (including null cells) np not available for publication but included in totals where applicable, unless otherwise indicated (a) Private hospitals can be accredited with more than one organisation. (b) Accredited by the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards (2004). (c) Accreditation or certification with other body. For definition of accredited/certified hospitals, see Glossary. (d) Tasmania, Northern Territory and Australian Capital Territory have been aggregated to protect the confidentiality of the small number of hospitals in these states/territories.